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A dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. It is a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people and their volcanic land, a cultural history rich in poetry and bloodshed, baseball and insurrection. Series: David Rockefeller Centre on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 450 pages, 33 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 774. 2007. 1st David Rockefeller Center for Latin American St. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

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A dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. It is a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people and their volcanic land, a cultural history rich in poetry and bloodshed, baseball and insurrection. Series: David Rockefeller Centre on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 450 pages, 33 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 774. 2007. 1st David Rockefeller Center for Latin American St. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 450 p. Contains: Illustrations. Latin American Studies, 19.

Paperback. In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist-and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe in 1981 and joining the foreign staff of the New York Times in 1983. That year he opened the New York Times Managua bureau, making that newspaper the first daily in America to maintain a full-time office in Nicaragua.Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens throughout the region.Blood of Brothers is Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. It is a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people and their volcanic land, a cultural history rich in poetry and bloodshed, baseball and insurrection. Kinzer interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. This is his dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that made headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, and a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Harvard University Press, 2007-09-30. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!